Dominique Dupuy

Dominique Dupuy (born 26 August 1957) is a French racing driver.

Dupuy began racing professionally in 1983 in Championnat de France Formule Renault Turbo finishing 4th. He moved to the French Formula Three Championship the following year and raced there until 1988. After that, he moved to the professional French Porsche 944 Cup series and moved to the French Porsche Carrera Cup in 1991 where he would race until 1999. He won the series championship 5 times ( record ) in 1993,1994,1997,1998 and 1999, with 40 wins (record) and would move onto the Porsche Supercup in 1995, winning 3rd place honors in Supercup in 1997. He also won two times (1993–1994) 24 Hours of Le Mans in GT class with Porsche. Double program for 1999, he won the French Porsche Carrera cup and finish 5th to the FIA GT World Championship with only 3 participations over 12 races. After that he moved to the French GT Championship he signed on to drive a Chrysler Viper GTS-R, he won the championship two times (2000–2001), he also race with this viper in Spanish championship and he finish vice-champion. Prior to the season beginning Dupuy and his Oreca teammates Olivier Beretta and Karl Wendlinger were the surprise overall winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona in their Viper.

Dupuy and the Oreca team were also the GTS champions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in both 1999 and 2000. He also won 12H Sebring and Adelaide (2000). Dupuy and his teammate François Fiat would go on to win the French GT Championship that year and repeated the feat in 2001. He brought the first Saleen S7R in France in 2003 until 2005. He retired from full-time competition in 2005 after and has not driven in French GT since 2007. He is now technical director of the First Racing team with 2 Lamborghini Gallardo in FFSA GT3.

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1993	Monaco Media International Larbre Compétition	Joël Gouhier Jürgen Barth	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	GT	304	15th	1st
1994	Larbre Compétition	Jesús Pareja Carlos Palau	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	GT1	307	8th	1st
1995	Larbre Compétition	Emmanuel Collard Stéphane Ortelli	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	GT1	82	DNF	DNF
1996	Viper Team Oreca	Perry McCarthy Justin Bell	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT1	96	DNF	DNF
1997	Viper Team Oreca	Philippe Gache Olivier Beretta	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	263	DNF	DNF
1999	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger Olivier Beretta	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	325	10th	1st
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger Olivier Beretta	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	333	7th	1st

• Dominique Dupuy career summary at DriverDB.com
• Profile at Speedsport Magazine

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